Economic Analysis and Policy Evaluation in the Railway Industry: An International Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-12-816928-5
Verlag: Elsevier Health Sciences

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Economic Analysis and Policy Evaluation in the Railway Industry: An International Perspective provides a systematic description of key topics of modern rail systems. Contributors evaluate the economic effects of forces shaping railway and transportation industries worldwide. The book covers a description of the recent evolution of the sector emphasizing those countries or areas where railways have achieved different degrees of development. Economic concepts, techniques and applied empirical models are considered to illustrate the different aspects of the rail markets. The assessment of regulatory, competition and infrastructure issues related to rail markets are also described with detail.

Zielgruppe

<p>Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals working in transportation economics, development economics, and industrial organization.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sánchez, Pedro Cantos

Cantos-Sanchez, Pedro

Ivaldi, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Verkehr: Ratgeber, Sachbuch
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. International Experiences I
3. International Experiences II
4. Rail Transport Demand
5. Production and Cost Structure in the Rail Industry
6. Pricing and Regulation in Rail Transport
7. Competition and Entry in the Rail Industry
8. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Rail Infrastructure Investments

Über Autor(innen)

Ivaldi, Marc
Marc Ivaldi is Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Academic Affiliate with NERA Economic Consulting. He is Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at CESIfo. He has served as President of the International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA) and as Scientific Director of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. He specializes in Applied Industrial Organization, and he has primarily studied network and transport service industries (rail, air, energy, telecommunications, banking, information technologies). He is an expert on empirical methods for competition and regulation policy and has published many articles in prominent academic journals. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania

Cantos-Sanchez, Pedro
Pedro Cantos Sánchez is Professor of Economics and senior researcher at ERI-CES (University of Valencia). He is specialized in transport economics and applications of industrial organization. Most of his research has been devoted to the analysis of rail transport. In particular, he has worked on issues such as deregulation and privatization in the transport sector, the analysis of efficiency and productivity in transport, the effects of infrastructure on economic growth, the evaluation of public policies in different transport sectors, and the pricing of infrastructure and transport services. He has a large number of publications in prestigious transport and economic journals. Also he has led many projects for national (as Ministry of Transports and Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and international institutions (European Commission and World Bank).